I've been percolating on
the topic for a couple weeks now myself, ever since I received the
unprecedented, rather precocious email Voices(dot)com sent to all their
"coaches" announcing their $18M capital investment from Morgan Stanley. (Regardless
of the fact they consistently thwarted every attempt to list our
coaching and demo production services on their site. We gave up two years
ago after they begrudgingly recorded a podcast with us.)

I
took the email in the spirit it was sent, which was, "Gloat, gloat.
Gloat, gloat, gloat, gloat."

The communication came thru loud and
clear. I turned to Jeff and a couple of talent
agents and colleagues, and deduced the obvious. They were planning to
purchase the ailing Voicebank(dot)net, of course.

The discussion was already
in full swing as to how low this single entity had successful
manipulated industry talent rates to the sub basement - surpassed in its
race to the bottom only by Fiverr and one short-sighted, irresponsible,
inexperienced "coach."

It's high drama (and finance, apparently) when talent are hoodwinked into thinking there's more competition than work. The
fact is, it's the other way around!

There's far more work than talent,
and that doesn't appear to be easing up any time soon.

What's the problem,
in part, is this inaccurate, insecure perception.

Question
is: Where's the demand for quality over quantity? Perhaps that's in
part what defines each of us individually a professionals, regardless of
experience level.

Also, talent agents
will use the platform preferred by producers, as long as they offer the
best paying gigs. Oh, and that it's easy to use! That doesn't necessarily
mean Voicebank ;)